Monks - The Transatlantic Feedback Page #2

then low frequency rhythms.

Then no rhythms at all.

They made the cuts you

need in today's techno

to be able to create those

fast TV commercials.

So, they also were the

precursors of techno.

The empty F sharp or

the empty C sharp,

which they suddenly played.

Then they stopped and Roger hit

with his instrument into the gaps.

That was the new phenomenon

where I could use my texts.

At each gap I said SEXY

and if I wasn't saying it

then it was Marsha Hunt

or Donna Summer.

Well of the GODS

with the Afri tube.

We didn't record the music.

I wanted to use some percussions.

The musicologists and the CEO

couldn't agree with me

and the whole thing failed.

Please hand out the notes.

I performed my Afri Cola music

with 48 strings, 2 oboes, 2 harps,

4 timpani - classical instruments.

And created this "unreal" sound,

which I always wanted to do

and which I could have achieved

faster with the Monks.

Then I didn't have to deal with

the burden of the conventions.

It would have been easy to work

exclusively with ad clients.

You see, 30 years later

Germany is still on the Afri high.

If they had have the

courage, like I did,

the Monks would still be

in the top ten.

Woman turns woman

and is liberated.

Girlpower and

freedom of men.

Marriage or no marriage -

is no question anymore.

What's the benefit of a few

gigs in small or big towns

if the spirit is not produced

and transferred by the media.

I am not talking about regular

media, such as newspapers.

I am talking about real advertising.

Advertising, and that's what

Niemann & Remy knew, advertising

with the major corporations.

That was a principle back then.

If the first record didn't succeed

you got rid of it.

At least I had the chance to

produce two follow up singles.

But they failed too.

We were always hoping for

a bigger breakthrough.

The first one financially would have

been shortly before the break-up -

the tour to the Far East, Asia,

Saigon, Tokyo... well, Asia.

For 6 months with good pay.

Everything was organized,

all visa issued, the band waiting

at Frankfurt airport

and one guy didn't show.

Published 12/01/2015

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